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noteworthy that the polycladine deer {Cervus sedgiuicM) do not reappear 

 in any of the subsequent Pleistocene formations of Europe. 



Arrivals, — Among the new arrivals in the Forest Bed of ]!^orfolk are 

 the earliest members of the giant deer race (Megaceros) which continues 

 into Middle Pleistocene times in Europe. We also note in the Forest 

 Bed the presence of a form (Caprovis) intermediate between the goat 

 and the sheep, as the name indicates, and most closely resembling the 

 moufflon of Sardinia. Among the rodents the large beaver TrogonfJie- 



FiG. 10. — Giant deer, Megaceros, of the British Pleistocene 



From a skeleton found in the Irish peat bogs. After original by Charles R. Knight in 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



.rium cuvieri succeeds the smaller ancestral species {T. minus) first ob- 

 served, in the Pliocene of the Eed Crag. The giant hippopotamus (H. 

 major) is certainly recorded in this region of G-reat Britain as well as to 

 the south in Italy. 



Among the proofs of a northerly climate is the first occurrence of the 

 musk-ox (Ovihus), which is attributed by Dawkins"'-^ to tlie Forest Bed 

 deposits. 



^ Dawkins, W. Bovd : "On the Alleged Existence of Ovibos moschatus in the Forest- 

 bed, and on its Range in Space and Time." Quart. .Tour, fteol. Soc. London, Vol. 39, 

 pp. 576-579. 188.3. 



